The Sixth, Facility To Pardon A sixth Law of Nature is this, "That upon caution of the Future time, a man ought to pardon the offences past of them that repenting, desire it.
All breaches of the Law, are offences against the Common-wealth: but there be some, that are also against private Persons.
It also mitigated the rigour of the penal law, while it recognised four classes of punishments, the offences being distinctly set forth to which each was applicable.
Provision was made for proclaiming districts in a state of disturbance; and it was provided that courts should be appointed in which offences connected with such districts were to be tried.
Arson, piracy, burglary, and robbery were to be capital offences only when committed under circumstances or accompanied by acts directly calculated to endanger life.
The erection of a court in England for the trial of offences committed in India.
A general amnesty for political offenceswas next decreed, and many penalties assessed were remitted.
In it is stated that two instances have occurred of offences against chastity, decency, and good morals, on the part of officers and female inmates, page 384 of vol.
Such among these crews as have been guilty of offences on board ship, frequently run away and settle on the islands.
When told that they were doomed to die, they all affectionately embraced, and bedewing their bosoms with mutual tears, reciprocally sought, and obtained forgiveness for any offences which they might have given each other through life.
Here then was a fit time for the Indians to commence a system of retaliation and war, if they were disposed to engage in hostilities, for offences of this kind alone.
Amnesty for political offences was vaguely spoken of, which soon merged into sanguinary denunciation, and concluded in the devotion of whole towns to fire and sword.
For instance, make them confess their offences and explain the ins and outs of their scheme, in order that it may be guarded against in future.
Beyond a few escapes, which were only natural, nooffences are attributed to the Dutch.
In case of heinous offences and obdurate insubordination, these punishments were combined—a man might not only be put into the Black Hole, but also be put on to reduced rations.
O credit me, youth, that when men draw cold steel on each other in their native country, they neither can nor may dwell deeply on the offences of those whose swords are useful to them.
No, quod the gentyll man, that nedeth nat: for I knowe verye well my wyfe hath shewed vnto you all the offences that euer I dyd, and moche more.
Whan the gentyll man was come, the religious man badde hym shewe his offences and trespaces.
Offences against property are crimes of this nature; and yet we know that many at former periods regarded, and that unfortunately some still regard, property as a usurpation and an injustice.
Offences against the sanctity of marriage are ordinarily considered crimes; and yet have there not been sects in whose sight marriage was unlawful, and others who have desired, and still desire, a community of women?
I repeat, that this has been very profitable to me, and also very afflicting, on account of the view of the various offences by which I have obscured my soul, and have been deprived of seeing my Lord.
I allude to the well-known custom of avoiding the infliction of corporal punishments, and of chastising the gravest offences by fines only.
Manners being chaste and pure, offencesagainst them will be covered with abhorrence and infamy; but if morals be corrupted, the same acts will be regarded with indifference; at the most they will be denominated slight weaknesses.
As far distant as the east is from the west,* so far has he divided our offences from us.
For graver offences the pauper had to be proceeded against before the magistrates under the Vagrant Acts and the ordinary criminal law.
Offences of this description were punishable by flogging, eight days' imprisonment, and confiscation of goods.
They are scarcely ever permitted to quit the enclosure; and their smallest offences are punished with appalling severity.
Whereupon she with both hands took up her dress and said, "Think that the whole Yusuf-zai tribe is enfolded in my skirt, and pardon their offences for my sake.
Said the Padshah, "I forgive the Yusuf-zai all their offences in thy presence, and cast them all into thy skirt.
He could never expect them to keep their plighted faith in the future, if their great offences in the past were not even acknowledged: a lax government set all turbulent spirits in motion, and led to shipwreck.
Still more than to single offences was attention directed to any variations in doctrine.
For judgment indeed was by one unto condemnation: but grace is of many offences unto justification.
Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them.
Cerizet has been in trouble so frequently for political offences that he has been a good deal talked about; and as one of the boldest enfants perdus of the Liberal party he was nicknamed the "Brave Cerizet.
To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court: to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
